Focused research on the global home networks ecosystem and connectivity within the home for both service provider and retail market segments. Covers cable, DSL, FTTH, and Fixed LTE consumer premise equipment (CPE), with regional and country level data, as well as Wi-Fi, voice, and different access technologies.

Tanzania’s mobile operators have struggled to comply with wave of new regulatory oversight that has seen a rise in fines for violating regulations and scrutiny over service quality in Tanzania. Despite having previously received fines, six of the country’s seven mobile operators still failed to comply with SIM registration regulations and have been issued a new series of fines on 14 July.

This market report gives a high level overview of the global Conditional Access and CAM markets, with shipment and revenue data, regional and platform level discussion, and vendor market share information.

Etisalat Nigeria is still in a period of uncertainty, following the default on a repayment of the operators’ $1.2 billion loan to their creditors (led by Guaranty Trust Bank Nigeria, Access Bank Nigeria and Zenith Bank Nigeria) issued in 2013.

Southeast Asian online video service, iflix is now available in eight countries in Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Egypt and Sudan.
iflix partnered with Zain, a Kuwait-based MENA mobile operator, to establish a joint venture called iflix Arabia. iflix has set up a new regional headquarters for MENA in Dubai. iflix claims to be the only international online video subscription service with full scale localised operations in each of its territories and with global headcount of 700 staff across 24 offices worldwide.

Millicom International Cellular (Millicom) has completed another step in the consolidation of their African assets, focused on their Ghanaian subsidiary Tigo Ghana. Bharti Airtel and Millicom announced a joint-ownership merger agreement on Friday 3 March, which will see Tigo Ghana merge with Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary – Airtel Ghana.

Content deal: The Football Association has signed multi-year TV rights agreements with agencies IMG and Pitch International for the FA Cup, English football's knockout tournament, for six seasons from 2018/19 to 2023/24. Pitch International will sell the rights in western Europe (excluding the UK), the Middle East and North Africa, with IMG handling the rest of the world. Unconfirmed press reports put the value of the deal at $1 billion. UK rights will remain with BBC and BT Sport through to 2021.

IHS forecasts for Netflix’s International territories have been slightly reduced to 38m for 2016 and 75.7m for 2020, a reduction of around 1m for the 5 year outlook. For the US 2016 forecasts have been adjusted to 48.3m subscribers.

This report provides a holistic view of Android OS across the pay TV and OTT retail STB landscape - focusing on the strategies and rationale of pay TV operators who have chosen Android implementations. The report also analyses the OTT STB market and the impact of Google's current vision of its Android platform.

Calendar Q3 2015 turned out to be a bit volatile for several of the publishers in our report. While large publishers Tencent, Activision Blizzard and NetEase all reported strong growth, Electronic Arts was down over the year ago period after taking a hit on currency exchange rates and not having a title comparable to The Sims 4 which launched in the third quarter last year.

Liberty Global has announced that it has reached a deal to buy London-listed Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) in a deal worth £3.5 billion ($5.3 billion) in a move that will strengthen Liberty Global’s reach into Latin America and the Caribbean.

Global box office reached $35.4 billion in 2013, a modest rise of
1% over 2012’s revised $35.0 billion. Given the decline in cinema
admissions during the year, the rise in revenues earned is more
a function of rising average ticket prices and the expansion
of emerging markets.

The FIFA World Cup 2014 saw an interesting mix of innovation, strategy, preparation and achievements on the pitch - but these qualities were also notable in the broadcasting efforts that showcased the tournament to a global audience on a larger scale than ever. The investments in infrastructure and technology for the tournament proved that the broadcasting industry is entering a new age - where data is larger than ever before, networks more complex, availability must be guaranteed at 99 percent with several 9s after the coma, with secondary feeds always accessible to step in. In this new era, storage, sharing and network capacity cannot be considered as issues, but as a commodity, elementary service.

“The global market for media transport services reached $16.5 billion in 2013 from $8.3 billion in 2006. During this period, traditional providers from satellite, teleport and terrestrial verticals recorded a doubling of revenues while fibre and CDN markets increased by three times and six times, respectively.